E-Cigarettes: Miracle or Menace?

[VictorC]

A BBC program about e-cigarettes on May 22, featuring Dr. Farsalinos (among others). The interview with Dr. Farsalinos was recorded few months ago.

E-Cigarettes: Miracle or Menace?, 2015-2016, Horizon - BBC Two

 

[VictorC]

I just watched this excellent documentary and can highly recommend it to anyone, especially to smokers. Hopefully BBC will make a follow up.

 

[Rossum]

"BBC iPlayer TV programmes are available to play in the UK only."

 

[VictorC]

There is a free app for iPad/iPhone...

 

[Rossum]

There is a free app for iPad/iPhone...

I no longer own any iDevices.

 

[B2L]

"BBC iPlayer TV programmes are available to play in the UK only."

There is a free app for iPad/iPhone...

I no longer own any iDevices.

iDo but I get this...

And when I change stores I get this...

Hopefully it will make its way to YT, sounds like something I'd like to see.

 

[Tony16]

If this is the same one its on YouTube

 

[r77r7r]

I Tube

 

[VictorC]

If this is the same one its on YouTube

Yep.

 

[Rossum]

If this is the same one its on YouTube

Thanks for posting. It's heartening to see honest treatment of this subject in the mainstream media somewhere. Sadly that's not here.

 

[Foggy Road]

Mostly impressed with the positive bent of this documentary. However I was annoyed by the fact that it did give in to journalisms penchant for sensationalism when it came to the Vapers that they showed. Other than the host it seemed that EVERY Vaper shown was a cloud glutton. This 'exhibition of excess' did nothing to enhance the general publics perception of vaping.

 

[Benji_Rock]

I have a headache from rolling my eyes so much

 

[nicnik]

Some good and fair, some not so fair. And plenty of silly TV science. The one guy needed fancy lab equipment to determine the guys blowing huge clouds put more vaper into the air, than people who engage in more moderate vaping do. Most of us can determine that, just using our eyes.

 

[cookiebun]

A BBC program about e-cigarettes on May 22, featuring Dr. Farsalinos (among others). The interview with Dr. Farsalinos was recorded few months ago.

E-Cigarettes: Miracle or Menace?, 2015-2016, Horizon - BBC Two

Smokey joe posted this somewhere else on the forum as well.
E-Cigarettes, Miracle or Menace? BBC Horizon...

Edit: If you have a bittorrent client this is available on a couple of public trackers too.

 

[ryanw7196]

Really disappointed with the visual portrayal of vapers in the first few minutes, reminds me more of an episode of Gangland than people who are trying to quit smoking. Were mothers, fathers, everyday working people, were not all menacing looking people sitting in bars blowing huge clouds and drinking cocktails surrounded by darkness and black lights.

And also the imagery of the dropper being used to fill a tank honestly reminded me of the way you would see a ...... syringe displayed in a documentary. Cannot stand the stigma!

I will watch the rest and get the full scope, and I am sure it will have a positive outlook in the larger picture, but that opening sequence just really made me upset and I had to vent.

 

[element77]

We need two volunteers to go in our lab and vape for a period of time for experimental data.
"Yes! Another cloud comp!!"

 

[jwbnyc]

Yes, interesting that they gave the control group basic equipment, and then snagged a couple of cloud bros. for the air test.

I'm betting that poor fella with throat cancer was the drop out from the group. He probably needed more firepower than whatever they gave him to use.

 

[element77]

Cloud bros. Lol!!!
That term cracked me up.

 

[catlady60]

To sum up: E-cigs are a miracle for smokers looking to quit and a menace to ANTZ, BT, and BP's revenue stream.

 

[nomore stinkies]

Ditto on the cloud bros. What I found disturbing is why didn't they do a sputum check for macrophage (WBC) count pre and post on all smokers. That result would have been interesting. Did the count go up, stay the same or down? IMO that would have been more helpful. Airway resistance improved so one would assume the inflamation decreased.Just my humble opinion-conjecture.